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~ To my sweet lil sis, for all the fights and giggles (who likes to call this painting "Winter Sun")
Oil and Acrylic paint on Wood - 1' x 2'
~ To my sweet lil sis, for all the fights and giggles (who likes to call this painting "Winter Sun")
Oil and Acrylic paint on Wood - 1' x 2'
Hi folks, this is my first blog on the net. If you have problems with any pictures, photos or videos, or want to publish any of yours, or have some suggestions, drop a line at zopharmarcus@gmail.com
http://www.danielsmith.com/Articles/Guide-to-Pigments.asp
http://www.missing-lynx.com/rare_world/rw05.htm
http://history-world.org/stone_age1.htm
(The link above is for the history of the Paleolithic time)
We always hear the word pigment and we really never hear when this around was. Pigments were around since the Paleolithic time which was the era was our first ancestors were alive. This is when they say that there was the first wheel and the first stone tools. They were trying to mix things up and they found this way of mixing pulverized minerals and charcoal. They would paint on their caves and this paint have been there for over than 30,000 years. Back then, the pigments that they had were not that well when it came to the texture of it and also the color that you would get. As the years have been going, there have been better pigments with their colors and also now they sell then when back then they didn’t, most people would make them. Also there are some pigments that are from natural earth and they are umbers and siennas. Others like cadmium colors are not natural because they have somewhat different mixtures and they are manufacture differently. So now you know that pigments have been here for along time and yet they are still use now days.
http://www.missing-lynx.com/rare_world/rw05.htm
http://www.concretedecor.net/Abstracts/CD403_Pigments.cfm
Pigments are essentially coloured powder, and they are use to be mix with binders and water to make paint. Some of the types that can be coloured are acrylics, chalks, coloured pencils, oils, and others. These are the things that you would mix with the powder. When you mix all of this, you would get paint. Some paints are faster to dry than others. For example,
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/geldof_99/w_w2.html
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/rothko/rothko_ss.shtm
Mark Rothko was alive from the years of 1903 – 1970. Between those years, there were a lot of things that were going on for example World War ll. This was a big impact in the history of the
Red Storm II
Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
12"x12"x.75"
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*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
Shell Storm
Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
12"x12"x.75"
To purchase please visit my etsy store CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
http://www.atypon-link.com/GPI/doi/abs/10.1521/jaap.30.1.17.21984?
In this website, it talks about how Mark Rothko had a very hard childhood and this is what caused his suicide. He experience early losses from his family. They don’t say who he lost but it was someone that was very meaningful to him because from that day and one, he was depressed and not that mentally well. I am not saying that he was crazy but that he was not well because he was alone and it was hard growing up without that person. When a kid is growing up and there isn’t that much love in his family, then he grows up to not be that loving or happy person. This is not for all people but it was in this case. He didn’t get marry or he didn’t have any relationships when he killed himself because he would also have attitude issues and he would just start to scream. He would scream because he didn’t want to hear what people were saying and this cause the women not to date him or get near him. He was always depressed and no wonders why his art was usually dark and not that complex because maybe this is how he felt with his life. This is the background of why he suicide himself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/powerofart/rothko.shtml
This is a website that I thought gave good information on the artist Mark Rothko. This website said that he was born in
Red Storm
Oil on triple primed panel
Oil on triple primed panel
8"x10"
To purchase please visit my website:CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
To purchase please visit my website:CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
Blue Storm
Oil on triple primed panel
8"x10"
8"x10"
To purchase please visit my etsy site:CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/intro1.shtm
This website has information on an artist name Mark Rothko. He lived from the years of 1903 through 1970. I really didn’t know anything about him but sometimes when you just look at their painting, you can get a lot of information from it. Here on the left is a picture of his art and you can notice that his art piece is with lines and colors. Most or all of his art pieces are lines or shapes with colors. I wonder why he decided to have only lines with different type of color. Maybe he was a person like me that doesn’t know how to draw that well and only draws lines. When I saw his paintings, I thought that this really helped out to me because I thought to myself, I can’t draw and seeing this person’s art made me feel better. So if you are one of those people that think that they can’t draw, maybe it would be a good idea for you to look at some of the artist pieces (not just Mark Rothko) and see how their art is made. Also if you were wondering what type of mood is Mark’s art, it is Abstract Expressionism and most the pictures might be similar to the other ones but he just uses different type of color. Also I think that some people think that art is something drawn to perfection but in reality art can be anything that combines colors and shapes or actual things.
New York Traffic
Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
24"x30"
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*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
My work has been featured here: Click Here
http://www.eggtempera.com/pigments.html
This was a website that I found and it can be every helpful for whoever is looking up if egg tempera is toxic of not. I thought that this was going to be non-toxic because I mean the ingredients that this mixture has are eggs, oil,water, and pigments. The pigments are the one that are dangerous and its very dangerous if you would inhale or consume it. The pigments that are very dangerous are Naples Yellow and Lead White/Flake White. These two are the ones that are the most dangerous ones of all the colors that have been painted. This is why when they make watercolor for children, they know that they should not use the same materials as a pigment does. This is because children don't know what a pigment is or anything like that and the first thing is that they would either eat it or smell it. Like this, there would be more children death and also I remember that when my relatives were small, they would first take the marker and taste it before they would use it to write on it. So before you give your children some crayons or markers to draw make sure what their ingredients are.
This was a website that I found and it can be every helpful for whoever is looking up if egg tempera is toxic of not. I thought that this was going to be non-toxic because I mean the ingredients that this mixture has are eggs, oil,water, and pigments. The pigments are the one that are dangerous and its very dangerous if you would inhale or consume it. The pigments that are very dangerous are Naples Yellow and Lead White/Flake White. These two are the ones that are the most dangerous ones of all the colors that have been painted. This is why when they make watercolor for children, they know that they should not use the same materials as a pigment does. This is because children don't know what a pigment is or anything like that and the first thing is that they would either eat it or smell it. Like this, there would be more children death and also I remember that when my relatives were small, they would first take the marker and taste it before they would use it to write on it. So before you give your children some crayons or markers to draw make sure what their ingredients are.
I've placed 4 of my paintings in these decorating photos to show how much a painting can change the tone and mood of a room.
I think this film ' One Rat Short' speaks so so so much on love...it's a very special and beautiful film. I bet you'll love it...i applaud the makers and wished i can make films this good....
it goes to show....eloquently
how love can be so simple n sincere....
and can exist such coincidentally in such chaos....
and be so beautiful and yet tragic all at the same time...
sometimes we who are in love don't realise what a gem we have...
sometimes we know we have a gem yet we have to let go...
I pray I can love sincere...I pray I'll be loved sincere...
I pray for you guys too...
may we all...
experience it...
wonderful...beautiful
love.
:)
http://webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/index.html
This is a website that talks about how pigments have been around through the years. They also mention that before the normal and basic pigments were made out of dirt or clay and now days they are made with chemicals. They are made out of different chemicals but yet there are some articles that say that pigments are not toxic. Now days, you can make better and more colorful pigments than back then. The first drawings that were made were the ones in a cave that our ancestors would draw. These drawings were painted with pigments made out of dirt, charcoal mixed or animal fatness. This was the only pigment that would stay there because the fatness of the animal would stick there when it would dry up. Also this web talks about how people in the ancient would put over someone’s body red pigment because this would mean that their life was over.
Abstract Zen Flower I
Oil on triple primed panel (unframed)
8"x10"
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CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
Abstract Zen Flower II
Oil on triple primed panel (unframed)
8"x10"
To purchase please visit my website:
CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
Abstract Zen Flower III
Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
24"x30"x1.5"
To purchase please visit my website:
CLICK HERE
*may require drying time
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_159/ai_73410717
This is a website that talks about how the art in the time of the Industrial Revolution. In this web, it talks about how from those days and now, art has been very different. In those days, they would just use different technology than the one that we have now days. Also back then the art was made in just paper and now days, art can be on special art paper, just paper, or in a computer. Back then they didn't have computers and some people wanted to make art but they would do this with all the materials that they had. This web talks something about this but I told you guys about the web and also what I know as my previous knowledge. Now in schools, you would do art to understand how it has change from something as carving in a stone or a rock to a digital picture or to a picture taken by a photographer. Art then and art now are very different to each other. Who knows how the art would be later on as the years go on.
This is a website that talks about how the art in the time of the Industrial Revolution. In this web, it talks about how from those days and now, art has been very different. In those days, they would just use different technology than the one that we have now days. Also back then the art was made in just paper and now days, art can be on special art paper, just paper, or in a computer. Back then they didn't have computers and some people wanted to make art but they would do this with all the materials that they had. This web talks something about this but I told you guys about the web and also what I know as my previous knowledge. Now in schools, you would do art to understand how it has change from something as carving in a stone or a rock to a digital picture or to a picture taken by a photographer. Art then and art now are very different to each other. Who knows how the art would be later on as the years go on.
The slideshow above is dedicated to my beautiful, very sporting and really cute though slightly cina-beng girlfriend (then again, i am quite cina pek)...Zhiling Chia. She's currently an aupair in America. We have had a long distance relationship for the last year or so....
I would be so happy to be hers but this valentine's day is a little sad for me as my girlfriend whom i love very much has left me. And though we had small breakups before...this time it may just be the real end...and so froggie is sad...It's not her fault...nor mine but our fault. As we are people from different walk of life...we have different ideals,wants and needs.And sometimes...arguements comes from the differing ideals....I can be quiet an ass sometimes...and I guess I was in this arguement wanting to of course win it...and well...she left me.It's funny how the arguement didn't matter anymore...I let her win it now.... I really tried to win her back...she's very much everything to me and despite having some flaws, she is a wonderful wonderful girlfriend....
dear...I am truly sorry...
I m imperfect dear but I feel it's not about perfection but loving inspite of the imperfection and possibly being romantic by finding perfection in togetherness.
also, dear...please don't say you want to be strong and don't want to be emotionally dependent on me...I want to be emotionally dependent on someone...I think that's why God made us in two...I am dependent emotionally on you because I love you...
dear...I am lonely because you are so far away but so long as you are my girlfriend at least I am not lonely at heart...now i am lonely at heart and it's not nice.
I am stressed out thinking...if we will still be...I can't close my eye because i'll see you and it's painful because you're not mine
dear...we had wonderful memories together...I don't want just those memories....I want you...more of you...
dear...I already love you alot and you know that. say you love me...and you'll have me.I am sorry...Happy Valentine's Day...
That aside...I was at the cinema for valentine eve...while there were many people there with flowers and their girlfriend/boyfriend that made my mind sort of wonder to my own sad situation above I was happy with people I love on the eve of valentine's day. I was with my grandfather, brother, father and granduncle...
I brought my grand-dad to the movie Rambo as he was the one who made me want to be a filmmaker and the rambo series of movies were one that we shared long ago...Rambo: First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Rambo 3...classics! Well...traffic in town was horrendous so I m glad we got there with enough time to settle my granddad into his seat before going out to buy him a drink....i want a cold mix hot milo...because hot may be too hot for the old man....I told the girl...she gave me the ??? look. First pour in the cold milo...then add some hot onelah...aiyor...but she obliged after i explained....
A quick review of the film...
It felt very short...it was straight to the action brutal shit....there's no middle bit where the film gets it's intellectual meat...it's hey...lets just just start, establish a story as quick and straight to the action. But it's not a bad thing...somehow Stallone after all these years knows how to tap into the male pyche of liking to see a hero brutally kicking butt and that's exactly what he delivers to the dot. It's not your typical Rambo movie where he works alone....this one her has a bunch of mecenaries...these add on characters were cutboard cut-out with the usual 'baddie'good guy who gets his fair share of pain and gets stared down by stallone and the good soldier plus the extras for killing off...the usual.
One thing that stand out were the lines....awesome and somewhat philosphical like "how ironic it is to send the devil to do God's work"or "Live for Nothing or Die for Something" or the one where he asked "Are you bringing weapons? If you're not you're changing nothing" There were some point in the film which i feel could have been further polished to make great moments but somehow were wasted.One was the one where he had to run from an exploding british bomb...that could have ended with a signature action movie signature jump but it didn't. Still I enjoyed it...but i wish my girlfriend was there with me....wait...i wish i had a girlfriend....
So yeah...a bittersweet valentine for me.....
A belated Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Valentine's Day everyone.
Dear you,
You asked where my inspiration comes from so here’s the smack down - there are other methods to my madness but for this bite its all about online searching. I'm a computer junkie and a perfectionist (shhhh! don't tell I might still be fooling people). When I sit down at the computer to get a creative buzz I usually start with google. I go to the images section and just start punching in nouns. As I search through the pages and pages of images for whatever reason, certain things just "grab". I feel something when I look at it and that's my first clue. I don't usually find an image and then blamo I'm painting. When I'm in the searching mode I just do a "save as" - in one of my many categorized hard drive folders - and keep going and going.
After I feel like I've added enough to my library of images I start surfing through my very full hard drive. Once I find something that really speaks to me I open it in Photoshop and play. I always combine several elements that I like in the multiple photos that I'm working with and add a twist to it. Although on a few occasions I loved the original photo so much that I've decided to ask permission to use it from the photographer.
After the Photoshop collage I print it out and take it to the canvas. As I push the paint around with my palette knife I will quickly get a feel for the piece. If it works then I keep going. If it doesn't - I've come to realize it never will so I just move on to the next piece and open up my hard drive all over again.
And that's that. At least when it comes to online searching. If I have time... I'd much rather hit the plein air circuit and feel the sun roasting my back.
PS. Thank you to the collector from NY that purchased "Landscape Reflection"!
You asked where my inspiration comes from so here’s the smack down - there are other methods to my madness but for this bite its all about online searching. I'm a computer junkie and a perfectionist (shhhh! don't tell I might still be fooling people). When I sit down at the computer to get a creative buzz I usually start with google. I go to the images section and just start punching in nouns. As I search through the pages and pages of images for whatever reason, certain things just "grab". I feel something when I look at it and that's my first clue. I don't usually find an image and then blamo I'm painting. When I'm in the searching mode I just do a "save as" - in one of my many categorized hard drive folders - and keep going and going.
After I feel like I've added enough to my library of images I start surfing through my very full hard drive. Once I find something that really speaks to me I open it in Photoshop and play. I always combine several elements that I like in the multiple photos that I'm working with and add a twist to it. Although on a few occasions I loved the original photo so much that I've decided to ask permission to use it from the photographer.
After the Photoshop collage I print it out and take it to the canvas. As I push the paint around with my palette knife I will quickly get a feel for the piece. If it works then I keep going. If it doesn't - I've come to realize it never will so I just move on to the next piece and open up my hard drive all over again.
And that's that. At least when it comes to online searching. If I have time... I'd much rather hit the plein air circuit and feel the sun roasting my back.
PS. Thank you to the collector from NY that purchased "Landscape Reflection"!
In my opinion I think that a blog is to post interesting facts about topics that are being assign to us. We are now in a project and we are learning about art. Art is something that you can express yourself with but without words. In art you can use figures and different colors that can change the tone of the painting. For example if one painting is black with gray this piece of art would be sad because the author is not using happy or bright colors. In the other hand, if you use colors that are bright, then the painting would come out more colorful and happier.
Desert Beauty
Oil on gallery wrapped canvas
Sides painted brown
11"x14"1.5"
(c) Trisha Lamoreaux 2008
To purchase please visit my website
To purchase please visit my website
*may require drying time.
So what makes me happy or what is a happy moment for me? When i was wanting to write a blog entry about being happy...I immediately started to think...what makes me happy? at which point...i stopped myself as i wondered...must i make an effort to be happy? must I think what is a happy moment? am i such a sad contrived person that being happy takes effort? and suddenly...it just popped out...being happy can just mean being happy...and so i just begin to write...
about three weeks ago....i was with a friend and her little 10 year old nephew calvin...he was obviously unhappy as he was getting very little attention.We then went for sushi for lunch...at lunch...my friend dipped her sushi in wasabi to which her nephew asked..."auntie, what is that?" The aunt,my friend subsequently replied...it's wasabi...it's for man only. This was an obvious tease to the little boy as he was always fond of tapping his chest with his fist and declaring "I'm the man!!!" And so...when her auntie prompted further by pushing it to him and saying you're the man aren't you? He quickly took one sushi...plomped it into the wasabi and quickly into his mouth...he then...raised his hand...placed it at the back of his head...shake his head...shake his head violently...and then he reached out for something to drink...he grabs the green tea...but that's smoking hot...so too bad...he just sad there...his hand clasped his face....and then tears streaked out.
Me and his auntie had a great laugh....yes, it was kinda cruel but if you think this is my posting for being happy...no it is not....well maybe...for us...but i am not that evil...
Calvin was really pissed after that and refused to talk to his aunt anymore.Not even if he died and gets reborn...he will not forgive her....she is the devil (pronounced d-vil)But as I was still in calvin's good book...though I somewhat played a part...hehehehehe... I offered to pacify him....I told her 'auntie' to leave him at my house...I'll fetch him home later.
At my house...I first brought calvin to the park....to feed monkeys....i told him to show a scary face so the monkeys will be intimidated and wouldn't come near him.this is how to be a man!!!! he started to smile...I was his brother....then I brought him back to my house....I was thinking of other ways to make him smile...hey, my car is kinda dirty.So I told calvin....hey calvin...wanna wash my car? we race okie...you was one side...I wash the other....
So we went back...settled on the middle line...and began washing....he tore his sponge to two to speed things up...we went next to neck....I finished first,I won! then he pointed out that i missed a spot...so as I washed that spot...he declared himself the winner...but then...I inspected his side and he missed a tire...
That night he has forgiven his auntie....it's amazing how monkeys and a carwash can make him forgive her auntie when even dying and being reborn won't.....It's funny how effortless it takes to be happy sometimes....maybe we should all try to be happy....wait, maybe we shouldn't try at all....just be happy!!!!
this blog is part of a happy competition...to write a happy blogpost.... I kinda like the idea of the contest....and so here is my entry. There is a 5k prize at stake for the best post....so do join if you wanna chance to win the cash or need the cash. Or if you wanna help me win it...log on to the site...and vote for me.For entry details or to vote for me click on the happy smiley below. If I win it...I have already decided that since it's extra cash for me, I will use the money to make some homeless kids happy... because i get so happy making a kid happy.... regards to you all my new friends who's popping by for the first time from the happy contest... do pop a message if you are a newcomer here...
about three weeks ago....i was with a friend and her little 10 year old nephew calvin...he was obviously unhappy as he was getting very little attention.We then went for sushi for lunch...at lunch...my friend dipped her sushi in wasabi to which her nephew asked..."auntie, what is that?" The aunt,my friend subsequently replied...it's wasabi...it's for man only. This was an obvious tease to the little boy as he was always fond of tapping his chest with his fist and declaring "I'm the man!!!" And so...when her auntie prompted further by pushing it to him and saying you're the man aren't you? He quickly took one sushi...plomped it into the wasabi and quickly into his mouth...he then...raised his hand...placed it at the back of his head...shake his head...shake his head violently...and then he reached out for something to drink...he grabs the green tea...but that's smoking hot...so too bad...he just sad there...his hand clasped his face....and then tears streaked out.
Me and his auntie had a great laugh....yes, it was kinda cruel but if you think this is my posting for being happy...no it is not....well maybe...for us...but i am not that evil...
Calvin was really pissed after that and refused to talk to his aunt anymore.Not even if he died and gets reborn...he will not forgive her....she is the devil (pronounced d-vil)But as I was still in calvin's good book...though I somewhat played a part...hehehehehe... I offered to pacify him....I told her 'auntie' to leave him at my house...I'll fetch him home later.
At my house...I first brought calvin to the park....to feed monkeys....i told him to show a scary face so the monkeys will be intimidated and wouldn't come near him.this is how to be a man!!!! he started to smile...I was his brother....then I brought him back to my house....I was thinking of other ways to make him smile...hey, my car is kinda dirty.So I told calvin....hey calvin...wanna wash my car? we race okie...you was one side...I wash the other....
So we went back...settled on the middle line...and began washing....he tore his sponge to two to speed things up...we went next to neck....I finished first,I won! then he pointed out that i missed a spot...so as I washed that spot...he declared himself the winner...but then...I inspected his side and he missed a tire...
That night he has forgiven his auntie....it's amazing how monkeys and a carwash can make him forgive her auntie when even dying and being reborn won't.....It's funny how effortless it takes to be happy sometimes....maybe we should all try to be happy....wait, maybe we shouldn't try at all....just be happy!!!!
this blog is part of a happy competition...to write a happy blogpost.... I kinda like the idea of the contest....and so here is my entry. There is a 5k prize at stake for the best post....so do join if you wanna chance to win the cash or need the cash. Or if you wanna help me win it...log on to the site...and vote for me.For entry details or to vote for me click on the happy smiley below. If I win it...I have already decided that since it's extra cash for me, I will use the money to make some homeless kids happy... because i get so happy making a kid happy.... regards to you all my new friends who's popping by for the first time from the happy contest... do pop a message if you are a newcomer here...
Sorry that froggie been away awhile...i have been like working like mad before chinese new year break...what's working like mad? well sleeping bout two three hours....work the entire day ...sleep two three hours...work work work...the perks? i can finish enough work that i can have an 18 day chinese new year break after...but the bad part? I was torturing myself more or less....finding myself yawning and tearing while pearing into a computer screen...but my body stayed strong and loyal...
i was packing like mad before I come home...and guess what...it's as if my body knows...it's home...it's time to fall sick so this crazy fellow will finally rest...if not i be overly excited and running about like crazy yumcha-ing with friends...and so my body crashed...
I have a fever...
a fever is a funny funny thing....when you get it...you just ache all over, good home cook food taste like crap and you feel both hot and cold at the same time....you feel like dying...but you are not actually dying...you're just miserable...as you sweat you are hot...and sticky but you cannot shower...paracetamol sort of hides the pain awhile and then you feel so alive....but then if you take it for granted you get sicker right after it wears off...sigh....
but it's good to have a fever...when you feel so bad...it means you can only feel great after or it lets you appreciate more the time you feel great...and it's good to test out your body's immune system...to perk it up...because a fever afterall is your body trying to fight off an infection and regulate itself once again...
so yeah...feeling half asleep all day and drowsy....going from the bed to the sofa...sleep more...shift to another chair...sleep somemore....recuprating...in kuching.
no worries...froggie won't die...at least he thinks he won't...or if he does..well at least it's at home :P
